The Conservative Reformation and Its Theology - Saint Mary ...

Christ sitteth at the right hand of God, we mean that He rules in cosovereignty
with the Father, in a potency which, as it is exercised on all
things, must be in all places, a potency which, as it is inseparable from the
substance of this whole person, in which it inheres, implies the presence of
that whole person, and, therefore, of His humanity, which is an essential
and inseparable constituent of that person.
Spirit and matter.
3. Hence the Lutheran Church, while it firmly believes that the
presence which the human nature of Christ has in and of itself is
determinate and limited, believes that there is a presence of that human
nature no less real, in and through the divine nature with which it is one
person, and that in this mode of presence it is as really on earth as in
heaven. God has given Him the uttermost parts of the earth for His
possession; His mediatorial dominion is from sea to sea, and from the river
unto the ends of the earth. God has said: "I will set His hand in the sea,
and His right hand in the rivers," and we devoutly rest in the faith that our
Saviour rules not by vicars, but in His own glorious and all-sufficient
person, true God and true man inseparably. When we remember that the
only absolute essence is Spirit, that all matter is thought into being by the
infinite Spirit, rests on that essence for its continued existence, derives all
its attributes from, owes all its properties to, the will which gave and
continues its being; when we remember that the body of our Lord is in
personal union with the absolute essence which creates all things, we can
easily draw the inference not only that any properties which it was possible
for God to will that His body should have, should belong to it, but that it
would have an adaptation as a personal organ of the divine nature, and
properties necessary for that adaptation which would infinitely transcend
the sublimest forms of all other matter. If such subtle matter, as the etherial
medium which undulates into light, be the mere raiment of God, what may
be the exquisite subtlety of that matter which is assumed into His very
person? Science detects a form of matter whose undulations, in forming
one color, are seven hundred and twenty-seven millions of millions in a
second, and it is within the power of God